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Book SynopsisAn examination of the meaning and effects of corruption in 18th to 20th Century history. Corruption is a preoccupation of governments and societies across place and time, from the 18th-19th Century British, Chinese, and Iberian empires to 20th Century Nazi Germany, Russia, the United States, and India. This study offers three different perspectives on corruption. The first chapters highlight corrupt practices, taking as a point of departure a technocratic definition of corruption. The second part of the book views corruption through the lens of discourses of corruption, revealing that accusations of corruption have been employed as tools, often in the context of contestations of power. The essays in the third part of the book treat corruption as a process, taking intoaccount its causes and effects and their impact on society, economics, and politics. Contributors: JEREMY ADELMAN, VIRGINIE COULLOUDON, WILLIAM DOYLE, DIEGO GAMBETTA, NORMAN J. W. GODA, ROBERT GREGG, MICHAEL JOHNSTON, WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN, EMMANUEL KREIKE, VINOD PAVARALA, DILIP SIMEON, PIERRE-ETIENNE WILL, DAVID WITWER, PHILIP WOODFINE William Chester Jordan is Professor of History at Princeton University; Emmanuel Kreike is Assistant Professor of African History and Director of the African Studies Program at Princeton University.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (coauthored with William Chester Jordan) - Emmanuel Kreike Corruption: An Analytical Map - Diego Gambetta Officials and Money in Late Imperial China: State Finances, Private Expectations, and the Problem of Corruption in a Changing Environment - Will Pierre-Etienne Changing Notions of Public Corruption, c. 1770-c. 1850 - William Doyle Black Marks: Hitler's Bribery of His Senior Officers during World War II - Norman Goda Corruption and Democratic Consolidation - Michael Johnston Tempters or Tempted? The Rhetoric and Practice of Corruption in Walpolean Politics - Philip Woodfine "The Most Racketeer-Ridden Union in America": The Problem of Corruption in the Teamsters Union during the 1930s - David Witwer Russia Adrift: Twenty Years of Anticorruption Campaigns - Virginie Coulloudon Cultures of Corruption and the Corruption of Culture: The East India Company and the hastings Impeachment - Vinod Pavarala Uneasy Streets: Police, Corruption, and Anxiety in Bombay, London, and New York City - Robert Gregg The Currency of Sentiment: An Essay on Informal Accumulation in Colonial In - Dilip Simeon Commerce and Corruption in the Late Spanish and Portuguese Empires - Jeremy Adelman
